Film Series: Japanese Society in Film
September 14 – December 9, 1998
Film Series: Japanese Society in Film
Altschul Auditorium, 4th floor, International Affairs Building, Columbia University (118th St. & Amsterdam Ave.) 6:30 PM
The opening night of Japanese Society in Film, a free fourteen-film series presented as part of two university courses on Japan: “Social Change Reflected in the Literature and Film of Modern Japan” (East Asian – History V3610; Prof. Carol Gluck) and “Tokyo: History, Form, and Spirit” (History – Japanese W4850; Prof. Henry Smith).
§ All are welcome.
§ Films will be shown in Altschul Auditorium (International Affairs Building, 4th Floor)
Film: Night Drum (Yoru no tsuzumi)
Directed by IMAI Tadashi
Starring Mikuni Rentaro, Arima Ineko, and Mori Masayuki (Shochiku, 1958, 95 min.)
Altschul Auditorium, 4th floor, International Affairs Building, Columbia University (118th St. & Amsterdam Ave.)
6:30 PM
Night Drum is a powerful film adaptation of Chikamatsu’s Bunraku play Horikawa nami no tsuzumi (The Drums of the Waves of Horikawa), portraying the despair of a samurai wife, left at home while her husband serves his feudal lord in Edo. When she is caught in an adulterous affair, the strict samurai code requires her death. Though her husband loves and forgives her, he must exact a penalty he does not believe in.
